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Legal Priorities Project – Annual Report 2022
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This annual report from the Legal Priorities Project, an EA-aligned organization, is relevant to wiki users interested in how legal institutions and scholarship can be mobilized to address AI governance and existential risk reduction efforts.
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The Legal Priorities Project's 2022 annual report outlines the organization's research and activities focused on applying legal scholarship to existential risk reduction and global catastrophic risk mitigation. It covers progress on legal research agendas addressing AI governance, biosecurity, and other catastrophic risk domains. The report demonstrates how legal frameworks and institutions can be leveraged to address long-term risks to humanity.
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- •Legal Priorities Project focuses on identifying and addressing gaps in legal scholarship relevant to existential and global catastrophic risks.
- •The organization conducts research at the intersection of law, policy, and longtermist priorities including AI governance and biosecurity.
- •Annual report documents 2022 research outputs, fellowships, and organizational growth within the EA-aligned legal research space.
- •The project aims to build a field of legal scholarship specifically oriented toward reducing catastrophic and existential risks.
- •Work bridges academic legal research and practical policy interventions relevant to AI safety and biosecurity governance.
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# Legal Priorities Project – Annual Report 2022
By Alfredo Parra 🔸, Christoph_Winter
Published: 2023-05-02
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*Note: A private version of this report with additional confidential updates is available for major donors and close collaborators. If you fall into this category and would like to access the extended version, please get in touch with us at* [*hello@legalpriorities.org*](mailto:hello@legalpriorities.org)*.*[^dl244stkxvp]
This report presents a review of the Legal Priorities Project’s work in 2022, including key successes, statistics, bottlenecks, and issues. We also offer a short overview of our priorities for 2023 and briefly describe our methodology for updating our priorities. You can learn more about how to support our work at the end of the report.
A PDF version of this report is available [**here**](https://www.legalpriorities.org/documents/lpp-annual-report-2022.pdf).
In 2022:
* Our research output per FTE was high to very high: With only 3.6 FTE researchers, we had 7 peer-reviewed papers (2 journal articles and 5 book chapters) accepted for publication, 3 papers currently under review, and one book under contract with Oxford University Press. We also added 7 papers to our Working Paper Series (for a total of 18), published a new chapter of our research agenda, and published 6 shorter pieces in online forums. We also spent significant time on reports aimed at informing our prioritization on artificial intelligence and biosecurity in particular (which we plan to publish in Q2 of 2023) and ran a writing competition on “Improving Cost-Benefit Analysis to Account for Existential and Catastrophic Risks” with a judging panel composed of eminent figures in law. Based on our experience, our research output was much higher than typical legal academic research groups of similar size.
* Beyond academic research, we analyzed ongoing policy efforts, and our research received positive feedback from policymakers. Relevant feedback and discussions provided valuable insight into what research would support decision-making and favorable outcomes, which we believe improved our prioritization.
* We experimented with running several events targeting different audiences and received [hundreds of applications](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xen7oLdHwoHDTG4hR/legal-priorities-project-annual-report-2022#Statistics) from students and academics at top institutions worldwide. Some participants have already reported significant updates to their plans as a result. Feedback on our events was overwhelmingly positive, and we gained valuable information about the different types of programs and their effectiveness, which will inform future events.
* Team morale remained high, including during stressful developments, and our operations ran smoothly.
In 2023:
* Our research will increasingly focus on reducing specific types of existential risk based on concrete risk scenarios, shifting more focus toward AI risk. While this s
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